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The Police Service of Northern Ireland has informed a
Belfast-based reporter that dissident republican groups, opposed to the peace
process, have issued a death threat against her, the British National Union of
Journalists said this week. The threat came after the journalist published a
story in a local Sunday newspaper claiming an Irish republican group was
protecting two alleged pedophiles in its ranks, according to the Guardian. The National Union of Journalists
has demanded the death threat to be withdrawn.

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London, December 19, 2012--The Committee to Protect
Journalists is alarmed that two attacks against journalists in Northern Ireland
have taken place over the past week. On Friday, a pipe bomb was left at the
door of the home of freelance press photographer Mark Pearce. On Monday, Adrian
Rutherford, a reporter with the daily Belfast
Telegraph, was attacked by a gang while covering Loyalist protests in East
Belfast.